Goodreads asked Denise Thompson-Slaughter:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Denise Thompson-Slaughter So far, I have not had to write to a deadline (except one in my head), so I just ride a block out. (I think having tight deadlines probably causes writer's block in many cases!) Maybe I'm lazy, or maybe I just honor my own rhythms, but I know I have creative periods and fallow periods. The fallow periods are just as important because that's when you are germinating the ideas and energy to follow them through. When I'm in a fallow period, I READ. A lot. Or I turn to some other creative pursuit like drawing or craftwork. I'll know when I'm ready to get back to writing. At times I've worried that I wouldn't get back to it at all, but I always do. It's like any other cycle in nature. I know other writers don't always have the luxury of going with the flow, of course. They have contracts--and undoubtedly make more money than I do!--but they don't have the pleasure of waiting for inspiration to strike.

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